{"id":10974,"date":"2016-02-17T06:55:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T11:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=10974"},"modified":"2016-12-27T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:13:15","slug":"its-wayback-wednesday-brendale-square-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/its-wayback-wednesday-brendale-square-past-present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday: Brendale Square past, present, and future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! Every week, we&#8217;ll be sharing a vintage photo and asking our readers to chime in with anything you can recall about the photo, other related memories, or even a funny caption. Have some vintage photos of your own? Send them to huntsville@doppleronline.ca and we may share them with our readers!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brendale Square has seen a lot of changes over the years. It was once a bustling commercial centre. Now, it&#8217;s little more than a parking lot. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you recall when and why this crowd was gathered outside the A &amp; P? Do you remember shopping there in decades past? What would you like it to become in the future? Share your memories and thoughts in the comments below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scroll down to see comments from last week&#8217;s photo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"48158\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are a few memories invoked by last week&#8217;s photo from the early days at Hidden Valley Highlands Ski Area:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I had the pleasure of working with Floyd Bartlett for most of my years at Hidden Valley. Floyd worked at Hidden Valley from day one. Floyd was a hard working man, always had a sense of humor and a team player. It was his T-Bar. He had little education but a brilliant man in his own right. He was a \u201cget\u2019er done&#8221; guy, always remembered. ~Ken Farnsworth<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">I met my love \/wife on that T-bar. ~Lane Verzyden via Facebook<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10611\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2016\/02\/T-bar-1963.png\" alt=\"T-bar 1963\" width=\"901\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2016\/02\/T-bar-1963-300x297.png 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2016\/02\/T-bar-1963-768x760.png 768w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2016\/02\/T-bar-1963.png 901w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! 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